The Course Portfolio How Faculty Can Examine Their Teaching to Advance Practice and Improve Student Learning

Cousin to The Teaching Portfolio, which documents a broad sampling of a faculty member's pedagogical work, the course portfolio focuses instead on the unfolding of a single course, from conception to results. The volume covers defining features and functions, steps in development, audiences and occasions for use, and the course portfolio's place in the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning. It also includes nine case studies by faculty in a range of disciplines who have developed and used course portfolios, as well as an annotated resource list.

Preface by Margaret A. Miller; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Pat Hutchings; 1. Course Anatomy. The Dissection and Analysis of Knowledge Through Teaching by Lee S. Shulman; 2. Defining Features and Significant Functions of the Course Portfolio by Pat Hutchings; Case Study 1. Writing a Course Portfolio for an Introductory Survey Course in American History by William W. Cutler, III; Case Study 2. A Course Portfolio for A Graduate Nursing Course; 3. Why Now. Course Portfolios in Context by Mary Taylor Huber; Case Study 1. Writing a Course Portfolio for an Introductory Slavery Course in American History by William W. Cutler III; Case Study 2. A Course Portfolio for A Graduate Nursing Course by Donna Martsoff; 3. Why Now? Course Portfolios in Context by Mary Taylor Huber; Case Study 3. A Course Portfolio for a Colloquium in 2oth-Century American Foreign Relations by Mary Ann Heiss; Case Study 4. A Course Portfolio in Mathematics by Orin Chein; 4. How to Develop a Course Portfolio by Pat Hutchings; Case Study 5. A Course Portfolio for Midcareer Reflection by Deborah M. Langsam; Case Study 6. Post-Tenure Review. A Case Study of a Course Portfolio Within a Personnel File by Charles W. Mignon; Case Study 7. A Portfolio That Makes a Point by Eli Passow; 5. Putting the Focus on Student Learning by Daniel Bernstein; Case Study 8. A Course Portfolio for a Creative Writing Course by Pat Hutchings; Case Study 9. A Hypertext Portfolio for an Experimental American Literature Course by Randy Bass; 6. Audiences and Occasions. Using Course Portfolios for Peer Collaboration and Review of Teaching by Pat Hutchings; Works Cited; Resources for Further Work by Laurie Milford and Pat Hutchings.

Pat Hutchings, Lee S. Shulman